Seattle, Washington, USA
1906

Seattle, se-at'tel, a city and subport of entry, capital of King Co., Wash., is on the E. shore of Puget Sound, 23 miles (direct) NNE. of Tacoma, on the Northern Pacific the Great Northern and the Columbia and Puget Sound Rs. It is beautifully located, its heights affording a magnificent view of the Olympic Mountains, the Cascade Range, and Mount Rainier. The harbor, called Elliott Bay, 40 miles from the Strait of Juan de Fuca, affords safe anchor age for the largest vessels. Lake Washington, to be connected by a navigable water-way with Puget Sound, about 20 miles in length and 2 1/ 2 miles in width, forms the eastern boundary of the city, and within its limits lie lakes Union and Green. Seattle has direct lines of steamers to the Orient (Honolulu, Japan, China, Philippines), and is the chief port of departure and outfitting for the Yukon region of Alaska and the gold-fields of northwestern Canada. It has important manufactures of lumber, flour, iron and steel, foundry products, beer, brick and tile, boots and shoes, etc., and other important industries are represented by bridge- works, ship-yards, meat-packing, and fish-canning. The city has also smelting- and refining-works and contains a United States assay office. The chief exports are lumber, coal, meat, fruits, wheat, hops, and many manufactured articles. Seattle is the seat of Washington University (organized in 1872). Pop. in 1880, 3533 ; in 1890, 42,837; in 1900, 80,671. The greater part of the business portion of the city was destroyed by fire in 1889.

Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906

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